I am a librarian at the University of Dallas. We have not received our issue of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition even though we have an active subscription. The serials discussion list I am on has been abuzz on this topic. It turns out no libraries have received their issues. The publisher has decided not to send it to any institutions. Librarians who call in to complain are being offered an subscription extension of two issues. That will not satisfy patrons who are looking for the swimsuit edition. They'll just have to go buy it on the newsstand (surely that's not the publisher's intent!)Who knew librarians were so down with the swimsuit issue? That's very cool, somehow.
It should be up to the institution to decide whether or not they choose to make the issue available to patrons. The publisher should send the issues we've paid for. If we throw them in the trash, that's our prerogative.
Anyway, this is shady behavior by Time, the publisher of Sports Illustrated. Boo. If libraries want to provide the swimsuit issue then that's their business.—MEGHANN MARCO
Message Board Full Of Pissed Off Librarians
Sports Illustrated Withholds Swimsuit Issue from Libraries, Schools [Library Journal]
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]]>Said yahoo got the principal involved. Principal (another yahoo) kinda-sorta thought it might lead the boys astray and quietly asked the librarian to put it away.
And promptly walked into a raging buzzsaw of righteous indignation from that 5'1," 98-pound, blonde, pixie-cut wearing pit bull terrier of an Iowa farmgirl, Lutheran master's of library science holder. The look on his face priceless - as if he'd been hacked to death by a butterfly.
But it was only my Mom, God rest her soul.
The mag stayed because, as my Mom said: "Well, honestly!"
]]>In short, neither librarians nor feminazis are to blame for library censorship in most communities. Look to the "we must protect the children!" crowd for answers.
]]>>As much as I'd like to agree wih phrygian about librarians encouraging the free flow of ideas, etc., they seem to have caught the "nanny state" who'll-protect-the-children bug.
More like the "who'll-protect-my-job" bug. Free-flowing ideas are awesome until it's you who's getting written up because you thought it was okay for patron X to look at material Y. (That's the frustrated middle manager in me speaking.)
]]>Nothing sucks more than thinking you have a cool job and then realizing people are masturbating on your turf.
]]>"...one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They control information. Don't ever piss one off."
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SI could give a rat's ass about whether it gets stolen or not.
]]>And then I remember how apoplectic people get over things like Janet Jackson's 3-milisecond nip slip.
Personally, I think the mail carriers are stealing it. Too dang heavy to carry anyway.
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Neah... Just kidding... We tease the ones we love. Really, you can have my copy if you want it. I'm, uhhh, done with it.
Good article here: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6422612.html
]]>Probably, just sick of getting all those copies returned, especially from school librarians. You know, the folks who got all bent out of shape over use of the word "scrotum" in an award-winning children's book.
As much as I'd like to agree wih phrygian about librarians encouraging the free flow of ideas, etc., they seem to have caught the "nanny state" who'll-protect-the-children bug.
]]>I'm more surprised that a UD librarian is complaining about missing the swimsuit edition. It's a very conservative Catholic university. (--Not that the religiously devout can't appreciate an attractive model in a swimsuit.)
]]>Playboys been being weird with library's as well since a few Republican think tanks went after people being allowed access to it in Public Library's calling it access to porn.
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